30 May 2011
Brief travel delay
Posted by Jessica Ball
I’m currently en route to this summer’s digs in Los Alamos, so posting will be light until I’m settled there. In the meantime, here are a few photos from the trip so far:
Flooding on the Mississippi at Memphis
Soggy trees on the Arkansas side of the river
We didn’t magically skip Oklahoma, but my camera was buried somewhere under a pile of camping gear. On to Texas…
Texas is pretty darn big. And hot. And windy.
Free 72-oz steak dinners here! (Yes, Texas again.)
Maybe some more photos tomorrow!
Jessica Ball is a volcanologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, researching volcanic hydrothermal systems and stability, and doing science communication for the California Volcano Observatory. She previously worked at the Geological Society of America's Washington DC Policy Office, learning about the intersection of Earth science and legislative affairs. Her Mendenhall postdoc and PhD focused on how water affects the stability of volcanoes, and involved both field investigations and numerical modeling applications. Her blogging covers a range of topics, from her experiences in academic geosciences to science outreach and communication to her field and lab work in volcanology.